Car-brake.



No. 698,784. Patented Apr. 29, I902.

A. BALDN.

GAB BRAKE.

(Application filed Nov. 1, 1901.

4 (No Model.)

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ANDRE\V BALON, OF. ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

CAR-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 698,784, dated April29, 1902.

Application filed November 1, 1901. Serial No. 80,721. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ANDREW BALON, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, and aresident of Elizabeth, Union. county, New Jersey, have invented acertain new and useful Improved Car-Brake, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a car-brake of novel construction and in whichthe brakeshoes are guided against the wheels in a positive manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of acar-truck'provided with my improved brake; Fig. 2, a plan of one-half ofthe same; Fig. 3, a detail of the brake-operating mechanism; and Fig. 4,a section on line 4 4:, Fig. 3.

The frame of the truck is composed of an upper double section a aand alower double section b b, that converge toward their ends, so as to runout into a single front and rear section 0. Between the two arms of theupper section a a slides the load-carrying bolster d, guided by rails dand supported upon the center of a semi-elliptic spring e. The ends ofthis spring are coiled around pins f, carried by links f, that aresuspended between the arms of the lower section b'b at f The spacebetween the upper and lower sections a a and b b is traversed by uprightrails g for guiding the oil-boxesg' which are supported by theaxle-bearings. The car-truck frame is supported upon the oil-boxes bysprings 9 The load is transmitted from the bolster at through the springe to the lower frame-section and thence through rails g to the upperframe-section to be evenly distributed to the oil-box springs 9 receivesthe end of a squared shaft is, adapted to be operated by the brake-leverIt and carrying an eccentric 10 arranged between thepins When the brakeis to be set, the

shaft 70 is so turned that the eccentric k bears against the shoes j andcauses them to slide along the pins e', so as to engage the wheels Z.When the brake isto be taken off, the shaft is turned to withdraw theeccentric le when the shoes will be retracted by the springs 9.

What I claim is A car-brake provided with a bearing, an upper andalowerpin' received thereby and projecting with theirfiends beyond thebearing, springinfluenced perforated brake-shoes adapted to slide uponthe projecting ends of the pins, and aneccentric that engages thebrake-shoes intermediate the pins, substantially as specified.

Signed by meat Elizabeth, Union county, New J ersey, this 25th*d'a'y, ofOctober, 1901;

ANDREW BALON.

Witnesses:

H. G. HooLEY, A. NEFT.

